1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1928 - Events. January 6-7 - River Thames floods in London - 14 drowned January 7 - Moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843, is completely refilled by a tidal wave January 12 - US murderer Ruth Snyder executed at Ossining January 17 - OGPU arrests Lev Trotsky in Moscow; he assumes a status of passive resistance and is exiled to Turk ...

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1928 - January. January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979) January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate January 7 - William Peter Blatty, American writer January 11 - David L. Wolper, television producer January 16 - William Kennedy, American author January 17 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973) January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist January 23 - Chico Carrasqu ...

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Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was Governor of New York, a leading Catholic, and Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He lost the election to Herbert Hoover. Al Smith - Early life. Smith was born to Alfred Emanuel Smith and Catherine Mulvihill and initially grew up in relative comfort on the multi-ethnic Lower East Side of Manhattan, on Oliver Street, New York City. His four grandparents were Irish, German, Italian and English, but Smith identified with the Iris ...

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Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR or Piatiletkai (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by the Gosplan based on the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development. Fulfilling the plan became the watchword of Soviet bureaucracy. (See< ...

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Five-Year Plan - Background Five-Year Plan - The Plans Five-Year Plan - The First Plan 1928-1932 Five-Year Plan - The Second Plan 1932-1937 Five-Year Plan - The Third Plan 1938-1941 Five-Year Plan - The Fourth and Fifth Plans 1946-1950 and 1951-1955

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Professional boxing in the 1920s was basically a sport that was practiced only in the United States, although several world champions went abroad for exhibition fights. Many fights during this era, some 20 years away or so from the television era, were social events with many thousands in attendance, both men and women. World Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was one of the most important fighters of this era. He won the title in 1919, keeping it until 1926. He lost the title to Gene Tunney in 1926, but many of his fights were ...

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Arabic: الجماعة الأحمدية; transliterated: al-Jamā'a al-Ahmadīya; sometimes called the 'Qadiani' community, after the locality of Qadian, India) is based on the Ahmadiyya movement founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian in 1889. The original movement split into two factions soon after the death of the founder. (The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, ...

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Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Al-Haaj Maulana Hakeem Nooruddin 1841-1914 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - The Split in 1914 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad 1889-1965 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad 1909-1982 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Mirza Tahir Ahmad 1928-2003 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Mirza Masroor Ahmad 1950- date

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January January 6-8 - Lt Christian Schilt makes ten flights in an O2U Corsair to evacuate wounded marines from the besieged village of Quilali, Nicaragua. He is awarded the Medal of Honor. February February 7 - Bert Hinkler leaves Croydon in an Avro Avian, attempting the first solo flight from England to Australia. He will arrive in Darwin on February 22. February 12 - Lady Mary Hearth leaves Cape Town in an Avro Avian in an attempt to make the first solo flight by a woman from South Africa to England. S ...

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1928 in rail transport - June events. June 13 - The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York. [1] 1928 in rail transport - September events. September 22 - Canadian Premier John Bracken drives the last spike on Canadian National Railway's line between ...

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January January 7 - Polikarpov Po-2 March March 5 - Beardmore Inflexible May Sikorsky S-38 December December 7 - De Havilland Hawk Moth ...

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1 special election held due to death of Frank R. Gooding (R-ID) 2 special election held due to refusal of Senate to seat Frank L. Smith (R-IL), elected but charged with fraud and corruption 3 special election held due to death of Frank B. Willis (R-OH) 4 the refusal of the Senate to seat William S. Vare (R-PA) left one seat vacant from 1927 to 1929 ...

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1928 Okeechobee Hurricane - Caribbean. The death toll in Guadeloupe was 600—1200[4]. Damage was not reported but was presumably catastrophic. The U.S. Virgin Islands suffered heavy damage, although no fatalities were reported. In Puerto Rico, which received the worst of the storm's winds, official reports put the death toll as 312 and damages at $50 million (1928 US dollars)[5]. It is remembered as the San ...

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1928 Summer Olympics, 1928 Summer Olympics - Highlights, 1928 Summer Olympics - Medals awarded, 1928 Summer Olympics - Medal count, 1928 Summer Olympics - Nations

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U.S. presidential election 1928 - Republican Party nomination. The Republican Convention was held in Kansas City, Missouri from 12 June to 15 June, where Hoover became the party's candidate on the first ballot. In his acceptance speech he said "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of this land... We shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this land." U.S. p ...

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U.S. presidential election 1928 - Results. The election was held on November 6, 1928. Republican candidate Herbert Hoover won election by a wide margin on pledges to continue the economic boom of the Coolidge years. Smith won the electorial votes only of the traditionally Democratic US South and a few New England States. Hoover even triumphed in Smith's home state of New York by a narrow margin. Smith's Catholicism hurt him in the South, where several states were won by the Republicans for the first ...

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British Columbia general election 1928, British Columbia general election 1928 - Results, British Columbia general election 1928 - Results by Riding

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A Category 2 hurricane hit central Florida near Melbourne. Another hurricane hit southern Cuba, weakened to a tropical storm and grazed the southwest Florida coast, making landfall near Apalachicola. A tropical storm hit Mexico in early September. 1928 Atlantic hurricane season - Okeechobee hurricane. Main article: 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane The most notable storm of the season was the Okeechobee Hurricane (or San Felipe Hurricane). This Cape Verde-type hurricane was the fi ...

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The storm formed as a Cape Verde-type hurricane off the coast of Africa. Hurricane analysis in the 1990s found that the storm probably formed on September 6. It was first sighted in the tropics on the 10th. On September 12 the hurricane passed by Guadeloupe, which reported a pressure of 27.76 inHg (940 mbar). It then moved over the Leeward Islands and the Virgin Islands, where a ship just south of St. Croix reported it as a stronger storm with a pressure of 27.50 inHg (931 mbar). On the 13th the storm struck Puerto ...

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The storm formed as a Cape Verde-type hurricane off the coast of Africa. Hurricane analysis in the 1990s found that the storm probably formed on September 6. It was first sighted in the tropics on the 10th. On September 12 the hurricane passed by Guadeloupe, which reported a pressure of 27.76 inHg (940 mbar). A bacteriological station in the tiny Saintes Islands, 22 miles southwest, reported an even lower pressure of 27.45 inHg (929 mbar)[citation needed]. It then moved over the Leeward Islands and the Virg ...

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Saratoga, the first fast carrier in the Navy, quickly proved the value of her type. She sailed from Philadelphia on 6 January 1928, for shakedown, and on 11 January, her air officer, the future World War II hero, Marc A. Mitscher, landed the first aircraft on board. In an experiment on 27 January, the rigid airship Los Angeles (ZR-3) moored to Saratoga's stern and took on fuel and stores. The same day Saratoga sailed for the Pacific via the Panama Canal. She was diverted briefly between 14 February and 16 February ...

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